The Lab Difference

At The Lab School, students with language-based learning differences, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and ADHD, feel at home. They are given the support and scaffolding to embrace how they learn and to use it to their advantage. The result? A student body that thrives.

A Specialized Education

Our curriculum is intentionally different, and is designed to support individual learners where they are, always with an eye of where they are headed. At Lab, we cultivate proficient learners across all subject areas by tailoring our instruction and by building the confidence of our students. After all, here at Lab we embrace differences as advantages, not deficits.
Our innovative approach to education does more than impart knowledge: the focus on problem-solving allows students to blossom in other areas of their lives. Our project-based educational model focuses on developing strong habits of mind, executive functioning skills, and self-advocacy in order to develop confident, capable learners.

Hands-On, Arts-Based Learning

Lab classrooms look and feel different. 

In our Lower School, you might find a class of students planning, designing, and building a marionette, all while honing the math, science, and group skills needed to turn an idea into reality.

In Middle School, you might observe students learning about Mesopotamia in Museum Club, where they recreate the meals, customs, and artwork of the period to bring history to life.

In the Upper School, you might see students seated at a picnic table in our eco-engineered wetlands, engaging in a Socratic seminar about physics.

Though no two days at Lab are the same, what is consistent is students’ enthusiasm to show up each day, engage in rigorous learning, and carry what they learned from the classroom into life.

Faculty Who See Possibility

Our teachers have the freedom to create, experiment, and challenge themselves while engaging our students. One moment they are giving a one-to-one reading lesson and the next, teaching the rites of mummification to young gods and goddesses in an Academic Club, our innovative social studies immersion program. 

Skills for Life

Outside the classroom, Lab students participate in athletics, service projects, performances, global travel, and more. They take risks. They support one another. They learn what it means to lead, and to follow.
In Upper School, students intern for a full academic year, gaining real-world experience that helps shape their post-graduate paths. A senior thesis helps them build the research, writing, and communication skills that will serve them well beyond Lab. And with college counseling that begins in 9th grade, they graduate with confidence in where they’re headed next.

Success That’s Personal

Our individualized approach to learning means that each student’s experience of success is highly individualized as well. There are countless on-ramps and off-ramps to a student’s time at Lab, depending on the student’s goals, strengths, and path. What is certain is that our students come to know what success means to them, and most importantly, what it feels like.